A Lebanese bank that was nationalized after US service members and their families sued it for helping fund the terrorist group Hezbollah may now be immune from the suit, the Second Circuit said Thursday.
The case was remanded to the district court for a determination of whether the bank is now an instrument of Lebanon.
The service members were killed or wounded by terrorist attacks in Iraq from 2004 to 2011. The plaintiffs said that Jammal Trust Bank aided and abetted Hezbollah by laundering money for it.
After the suit was filed, the US labeled JTB a terrorist organization and ...
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